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The Pressure of Radiation and Carnot's Principle

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I GATHER from a letter on this subject which appears in your last issue that Lord Rayleigh endorses the opinion that the partial pressure p of any particular frequency in full radiation may properly be deduced from the intrinsic energy-density E/v of the same frequency by Carnot's principle.

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CALLENDAR, H. The Pressure of Radiation and Carnot's Principle . Nature 92, 553 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092553c0

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